41. Home Enjoyments are not crowned, where Home Music is no found.
No. 41. Grosvenor College Albums.
Wickins' Drawing-Room Operas
with or without stage accessories for amateur performance.
Wallace's Popular Opera
MARITANA
ACT II
No. 7. Song ... "Alas! those Chimes" ... Contralto
from pages 13-14

Act II.
SCENE I.
_Interior of Prison._

(Prison Scene with Don Ceasar sleeping on a beach, 
watched over by :Lazarillo, a deoted page, who sings 
while the Count sleeps.)

NARRATOR. "Don Ceasar, who has been sentenced to death for 
fighting a duel while protecting Lazarillo and helping him 
to excape from his former master's ill treatment, is 
sleeping on the eve of his execution, watched over by the 
page who, devoted to the count, sadly and softly sings 
while the other sleeps."

Romance:
"Alas! those chimes so sweetly stealing." (1845; 1899)
Words by Alfred Bunn, Esq.
Music by William Vincent Wallace, 1812-1865
Abridged & Arranged by Florence Wickins

London, W: Wickins & Co., 41 New Bond Street
[Source: vn3578959@NLA]

1. Alas, those chimes so sweetly stealing, 
Gently dulcet, gently dulcet to the ear, 
Sound like pity’s voice revealing 
To the dying, death is near. 
Still he slumbers, how serenely! 
Not a sigh disturbs his rest. 
Oh! that angels now might waft him 
To the mansions of the blest, 
  Oh! that angels now might waft him 
  To the mansions of the blest.

2. Yes, yes those chimes so softly swelling,
As from some holy sphere, as from some holy sphere,
Sound like hymns of spirits telling
To the dying, peace is here.
Come! abide with us in heaven,
Here no grief can reach thy breast;
Come! approving angels wait thee
In the mansions of the blest,
  Come! approving angels wait thee
  In the mansions of the blest.